"One of the charges levelled against me (during the Janata regime) in Manipur was that I had stolen two hens and six eggs. Will any prime minister do such a thing?"Mrs Indira Gandhi addressing a Sikh gathering in New Delhi

"Jagjivan Ram seems to have finally decided that it would be better to reign over his own party, however small, than to serve in someone else's."Editorial comment in the Statesman

"(Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister) T. Anjiah is perceived as a sort of caricature of Hamlet, playing out a comic skit. Hamlet's was a tragedy of indecision, the Anjiah chapter in Andhra Pradesh will be remembered as comedy structured on that fatal flaw."Saeed Naqviin Indian Express

"Multinationals are welcome. But we will be happy if they concentrate on their business and do not intrude in ours."Jyoti Basu,opening an Indo-Japanese venture near Calcutta

"It should not cause any concern if the whole country one fine morning becomes Christian and the next day turns Hindu and the day after Muslim. Our secularism lies exposed and battered."Janata MP Syed Shahabuddinin the Hindustan Times

"After so many slaps in the face and kicks in the arse. . . we had thought that national pride would persuade New Delhi to tear up the (Tarapur) treaty and consign it to the waste-paper basket."Editorial commentin Blitz

"Usually an anthology is a graveyard which even pays you for the honour; if a poet is editing one he at least should enforce greater quality control over the corpses admitted."Arvind Krishna Mehrotrain Debonair

"Graft in Delhi has reached such proportions that those indulging in it in the states look like babes in the wood."Kuldip Navar in the Tribune

"Whoever killed the Nirankari Baba did the right thing."Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwala, head of the Bhindranwala sect, in Sunday

"Now we have a ruling party where power resides with the unemployed who have embraced politics."Romesh Thaparin the Statesman

"Happenings in Karnataka have turned out to be according to Bombay formula films, with abductions and rapes allegedly involving political personalities."Quarkin the Times of India

"If Indira (Gandhi) is not India, as she certainly is not, Bahuguna is more emphatically not Bharat."Editorial commentin Mainstream

"New Delhi is really a nice place to be posted; stable government, no terrorists, no bomb attacks."A press attache of a west European nation in Surya India

"There is some streak of cruelty in all of us which makes us admire murderers. Criminals are not born; they are made-by the press."Shrikant N. Bhatin Onlooker

'Being divorced in this country is like being caught in a traffic jam with only your underpants on."Pritish Nandyin the Hindustan Times

"Why are they (people) so curious to know where I get my money from? From the World Bank if that is what you want to know."Film actor-director Sanjay Khan in Stardust

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